The American Chronicle: December 2020

Tuesday, December 22, 2020

One Minute Chronicle: More Global Warming Hoax

It has been a while since we have published a One Minute Chronicle, but we crossed some information worthy of publication - a chart showing the hoaxery of "Global Warming."

The argument is made that because some temperature fluctuates for a couple of years that a massive trend is under way to over heat or over cool the planet. Man is always at the center of the elitist complaints, so mass extermination is called for to correct the problem as Prince Phillip of the United Kingdom did when he implored that 90% of the world's population be destroyed because it is nothing but "eaters."

Global temperatures, if even such a concept is legitimate, point to regularly fluctuating temperatures with no material change. What goes up must come down. Yet no weather catastrophe of lasting significance, outside of the ice age - when there were minimal humans - have been recorded over the past 2000 years as this chart attests. Where is the global warming or cooling?

And even if there were some global warming, no one has showed its harm. Yes lies and false data have been presented, but nothing amounting to scientific respectability as the referenced Breitbart article affirms.

In the northern hemisphere, temperatures have been warming, but I ask again, where is the catastrophe?

Reference

James Delingpole, DELINGPOLE: ‘Global Warming’ Is a Myth, Say 58 Scientific Papers in 2017, Bretibart, June 6, 2017, accessed: DELINGPOLE: 'Global Warming' Is a Myth, Say 58 Scientific Papers in 2017 (breitbart.com), 12/22/2020

Monday, December 14, 2020

Comprehending the Booth Bombshell

We had little time in our last Chronicle to absorb the implications of Booth's successful escape and the village it took to kill a president. It is time to reflect upon the seemingly irreconcilable juxtapositions implied by the assassination.

To be clear, John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln's killer, escaped capture. The fairy tale told about Garret's Farm and barn was a deception to take the public's attention from the murder and to let it die a deserved death. The man killed at the farm was John Boyd. The body was disposed with the swiftest dispatch by men who were completely under Edwin Stanton's control, many of whom owed their careers and prominence to him. Many private and public persons expressed doubts about the identification of the corpse, but the very powerful Stanton and the Radical Republicans could easily ignore the screamers.

Thanks to Dr Arnold's research, we know that a military convoy was stationed outside the Navy Yard bridge which facilitated Booth's escape. Initial vectors of search were misdirected to the north and any which way but south. However, all of a sudden, a 25 man mounted infantry unit miraculously found "Booth", killed him, and moved on with the rest of the cover-up.

In Arnold's telling, the Garrett sons, Booth, and Stanton and his army were accomplices in the assassination of Lincoln. Booth, who was an intelligence officer in the Confederacy, implicates the Southern leadership although we have to take care where to assign the responsibility in that government - most notably Judah Benjamin who was a Rothschild agent.

It may seem odd that both Union and Confederate forces would be allied in the removal of Lincoln from office. On the one hand, Lincoln had spoken clearly about restoring the Confederate states to full statehood with alacrity. As such he would have been the South's best friend in contrast to the Radical Republicans who were hellbent on imposing a draconian brutal revenge from which the former Confederate states would never recover.

So why would the Confederates take the chance of removing Lincoln? Johnson had not made many pro South speeches or noises, and though from Tennessee himself, seemed much more aligned with the Radicals. I suspect that private assurances were made by Johnson to the Confederates that he would continue Lincoln's policies, thus assuring the Confederates that they could exact revenge for Lincoln's brutalities and not lose any of his lenient policies.

On the other hand, Stanton was a power mad psychopath who saw himself as the rightful president if not Caesar. He was the point man for the plutocratic industrialists who had put Lincoln into office to destroy the South because of its advocacy of low tariffs which were inimical to the protectionist policies they favored. Stanton was the operational director of the assassination. Northern powers saw him as the man to eliminate Lincoln's conciliatory policies. With Lincoln gone, they could continue to plunder and rape the South.

The man in the middle was the duplicitous Andrew Johnson who played both sides against the middle. Some historians have argued that Johnson had nothing to do with the assassination because of the hostility he endured from Stanton and Congress which was firmly under the control of radicals. But I dismiss this idea as bit too idealistic.

Johnson and Booth knew each other quite well and had a close relationship going back several years when the actor was in Tennessee. Booth's visit to Johnson at his his hotel indicates the closeness and was doubtless a signal regarding the assassination. Johnson was the only man who had contacts with Booth and could act as his handler, namely to launch the operation against Lincoln. As an insider in Lincoln's administration, he had contact with Seward and would be able to act as the liaison between Union and Confederate operatives.

Johnson's master plan was to remove Lincoln which assuaged the Confederates, and gratified Stanton and the plutocrats. Once the evidence of the murder was buried, and innocent men and women were murdered to serve as patsies and Oswald would later say, Johnson could consolidate power, and push Stanton aside, an action which nearly cost him the presidency.

Yet Johnson prevailed, rid himself of Stanton, and followed as much of Lincoln's policies as he could, though he was clearly stymied by the very powerful Radical Republicans. Congress overrode Johnson's vetoes with the ease of a hot knife through butter.

One of Stanton's cronies, the once all powerful Lafayette Baker, revealed the tryst in a poem he wrote in the margins of an obscure British military journal. The encrypted message was decoded in the late 1950s or early 1960s which disclosed that a couple of dozen very powerful private and public persons were behind the assassination. Most telling was his exposure of Booth, Stanton, and Johnson as co-conspirators.

When Baker revealed the Booth diary two years after the assassination trials, Stanton took revenge by poisoning the former chief security officer, a fact also discovered in the 1960s.

Stanton himself, we believe, was murdered under the guise of suicide, a topic we have covered in an earlier Chronicle.

Lincoln's assassination was not the work of a lone nut. Removing a head of state is never so easy. There are way too many moving parts which have to be lubed and managed, and Lincoln's case was no different.

Sunday, December 6, 2020

First Impressions: The Conspiracy Between John Wilkes Booth and the Union Army to Assassinate Abraham Lincoln

After reading several books this year concerning the War of Northern Aggression and the Lincoln assassination, I can finally say that the case and mysteries surrounding the final disposition of John Booth have been settled.

We published a recent Chronicle in which we sat on a fence concerning the capture and death of John Booth, conceding that it was not an open and shut case whether or not he got away with murder. With the help of Dr. Robert Arnold, I am no longer reticent about Booth's demise. The famous (or infamous) actor escaped one of the most intense manhunts in history, and lived to tell about it, a habit which led ultimately to his demise in 1903.

Like some of the other authors I have read, Arnold, a retired US Naval surgeon, lays out the case for a conspiracy to murder Lincoln, one which centered on the Union Army and Edwin Stanton. While the other books elaborate the conspiracy more fully, and include more people, such as Andrew Johnson, Arnold focuses on the lower level of the action - ie rehearsing the details at the crime scene, the manhunt for Booth, the medical situation of Booth, the trial, and others at Stanton's level and below.

Most importantly, Arnold exhumed records from the National Archives which shed new light - even after 150 years - on the crime of the 19th century. For example, we find out that there was an army caravan of around 10 wagons each hitched to teams of 4 horses lining the road leading from the Navy Yard Bridge, a fact which was never disclosed to the public, but whose presence most assuredly ensured Booth's safety in the same way that Silas Cobb's disobedience to orders prohibiting exits after 9p enabled Booth to escape.

We also find out that it was most improbable that David Harold accompanied Lewis Powell to Seward's residence in an attempted murder. Harold had more than likely left Washington, DC before the gates closed anticipating to rendezvous with Booth after he completed his job at Ford's Theatre.

The old fable that Major Rowan O'Beirne sent the telegram to Stanton which reported Booth and Harold crossing the Potomac is laid to rest. The telegram miraculously survived the decades and clearly has no information about the fugitives crossing the river into Virginia - or anywhere else for that matter. This was a ruse to provide a plausible explanation about how Booth and company were finally found - the point being that Stanton knew full well that a fake Booth would die at Garrett's farm.

Captain Willie Jett, a Confederate veteran, very briefly with Mosby's Rangers, was not captured at the Star Hotel but at the Gouldman residence, the home of his future wife. Jett was placed under a staged arrest to give him cover as he assisted Lt Colonel Everton Conger and Lt Luther Baker in their capture of "Booth."

But this brings us to one of the most important facets of the book - namely that John Wilkes Booth was not the man captured at Garrett's farm. Arnold explains that the two Garret sons, William and John, were Confederate soldiers who were given leave from service in order to assist in the staging of the capture and killing of Booth.

As it turns out, Booth was swapped with a man named James Boyd who was a hapless victim of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. He suffered a war injury which required use of cane, which plausibly mimicked Booth's fracture ankle, but he was the scape goat in the charade which allowed Booth to escape.

He was allowed to stay for a couple of days in Garret's home, but Richard, the father of John and William, decided that he was no longer welcome. However, he and Boyd were allowed one last night in the barn which the two sons locked for safe keeping. The argument advanced by one author was that they were locked in so that they would not steal any horses or other property. However, the real reason was that they were being kept for the slaughter to occur within a few hours upon Lt Doherty's arrival with his 25 man mounted squadron from the New York 16th Infantry. The horses had been removed from the barn in anticipation of its burning in the early morning hours.

John and William kept guard in the corn crib to make sure that the two men did not escape, and to make contact with Conger and Baker as they planned the final actions resulting in the death of Boyd.

The scheme was to find someone with enough resemblance to Booth who, when burned, could plausibly be passed off as Booth. The plan failed due to Doherty's interferences, so Conger scrambled at the last minute to kill Boyd after Harold surrendered. Boston Corbett was not the man who shot Boyd as Arnold shows from the ballistics of the wound. Under no circumstances could Boyd be taken alive.

Boyd died within minutes of shooting, his body packed up to be carried along with Jett and Baker, Conger having left for Washington to deliver the property of Booth to Stanton. The personal articles partly provided the plausible identification of the victim. Since Boyd was wearing a Confederate uniform, he was taken by Baker and Doherty to be dressed in black clothing in order to simulate what Booth wore to the assassination. This explains the long absence between Doherty's unit and Baker and Jett.

The autopsy on the Montauk was another farce, the central feature being that the only possibly credible witness was Dr John May who initially claimed that the body could not be that Booth, but finally relented under pressure to make the identification on the flimsy evidence of the scar on Booth's and Boyd's necks. Contrary to our previous belief, there is no evidence that Booth's dentist identified the corpse, nor is he listed in the index of witnesses in the National Archive records.

The corpse was brought aboard the Montauk in the middle of the night, and just as mysteriously taken away the following day to be buried in the old penitentiary in Washington in a cell to which only Stanton held the key.

Arnold reduces a mass of information and contradictions into an easily understandable conspiracy involving both the Union army and elements of the Confederacy who collaborated as strange bedfellows to murder Lincoln, each party having its own reasons for doing so.

Ultimately the South got the bad end of the bargain for it suffered under the Radical Republicans' reign of terror, something which Johnson fought unsuccessfully. However, he was able to pardon all Confederate soldiers and politicians, as well as the surviving victims of General Joseph Holt's kangaroo court which murdered innocent victims such as Mary Surrat - all under direction from Stanton.

The Conspiracy contains much more fascinating details surrounding the planning and execution of the assassination, but it makes clear that it was not the work of a lone gunman who suddenly at the last minute decided on one last mad act.

The time has come to rewrite the history books and tell the truth. Unfortunately that will never happen any time soon. The government, even today, has too much to risk in such a confession.